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10 Million Plugins Enhance Skype |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Monday, 30 April 2007 |
eBay-owned telecommunications company, Skype, says there were more than 10 million
downloads of Skype Extras since the Extras Manager in Skype 3.0 for
Windows was launched four months ago.
Whether its communications related, like the popular Pamela Call
recorder, or a game of backgammon, it seems users are interested in
extending the functionality of their Skype client.
It is one of Skype's visions for the future to create an ecosystem
surrounding the Instant Messenger softfone to help maintain momentum by
allowing third party developers to make money from providing additional
functionality.
The early success of the company has attracted global interest from software developers with more than
4,000 already registered in the Skype Developer Program.
"We see
developers as key partners for us to take Skype further," says Paul Amery, Director of the Skype
Developer Program. "The Skype developer community continues to amaze us
by creating new software and tools that plug in directly to Skype and
enable the Skype community to do cool things on Skype."
Although the Pamela Call Recorder Extra is currently the most
downloaded
business application, having been downloaded over a million times. The
application that currently tops the list of most frequently
downloaded Extras is CrazyTalk for Skype, which allows users to use
live avatars and emotions on Skype video calls.
It has been downloaded
more than 3.5 million times since becoming available on Extras.
"Since
joining the Skype Developer Program, downloads have rocketed from
thousands to millions a month," said Charles Chen, CEO of Reallusion,
the company which published CrazyTalk.
extras.skype.com
developer.skype.com
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